The Luna's Last Wish

"I, Anna Williams of the Blue Valley pack…hereby renounce my title as the Luna of Blue Valley pack today." The heavy thunderclap immediately caused everyone present at the altar to shudder in trepidation, as some gasped and some smiled gently. It was as though I had lost something very dear to me, but what really got to me was the mistakes that I made that had brought me to this very moment of truth. I fell to the wooden altar floor making a rather heavy thump. "Was I dreaming?" "Isn't this the same Eric Justin who had once showered me with love and compliments?" "Isn't this the same Eric Justin who had even taken an arrow for me before?" "What really changed…where and when did I ever go wrong?" As I lay on the wooden altar I could feel power surge out of me, the renouncement process had really drained me a whole lot. As I stared at the man who made me go through all this I was just getting more confused as the day got darker by the minute. "Isn't this the same man who had followed me all these years begging and pleading for my love until I had no other option but to surrender to his advances? "Isn't this the same Eric Justin whom I had because of him rejected my true mate by allowing him to mark me against my Dad and Nanny Julie's wish?" "Because of the love he professed to me, I took a drastic action by not waiting for my true mate." This and many thoughts ran through my mind as I lay there on the altar, my eyes were already laden with tears. It was as though the ground should split open and swallow me up. "This is really disheartening." "How did I end up like this…from the once adored princess of my pack the Great Blue Valley pack to now a rejected outcast." "I was literally a shadow of myself." My thoughts raced vehemently as I only wept on the altar. My tears flowed down the altar and towards the feet of the very man who had been the cause of all this misery. "Eric my mate…But why…After all I have done for you?" My voice was hoarse as I stared at Eric Justin who let out a silent smile. I could see everyone going home with their heads in shame and it was even worse for me since my father, Alpha Williams had mysteriously died some years ago, alongside my Nanny Julie. Eric Justin immediately walked closer to me, slowly climbing the wooden stairs of the altar that was partly damp with my tears. His weight made the wooden altar creak loudly for a werewolf his size. "Don't you ever call me again." He screamed at me. "And don't you ever use that word mate on me again." He added almost threatening to smack my face as I shuddered backwards. "How can you even open your dirty mouth to call me your mate after you cheated with two strangers in a day?" His words hit my soul like a thousand Spartan arrows laced with Scorpion venom. I could only but bend my head in shame even though all he just said were all lies. "You are even lucky I decided to consider your request to renounce your title." "I should have just done the normal thing which is to report you for cheating and have you banished from the pack forever." Eric Justin said, his voice was laced with anger as he clenched his fist and gazed upon me in disdain. Memories of my life flashed through my mind like a well-edited video. I had moved from the once pampered and respected princess of my pack to a major disgrace and a hated outcast to everyone. The guilt that I might have in a way being among those who caused my dad's death still haunted me, even as I lay helpless on the mahogany wooden altar. All this because I left everything and gave everything to the wrong man. But I really don't get it, this was a love that Eric Justin had craved for since I turned 16. 'What is really happening?' As I stared at him from the altar, all I could see was a monster… a big monster in human form. Where did I ever miss it? Everything was going perfectly great for me until my dad died mysteriously. After his death and funeral, my hunch was confirmed, I finally found out that Eric Justin had actually been cheating on me all this while even after all I did for him. But due to my love for him, I would still get back together with him hoping that he would change one day. There was nothing that I didn't do for Eric Justin… I literally gave him my all. I gave him my body, soul and spirit and this is what I'm getting for it. Days after day I would confront Eric Justin for cheating on me, he would always deny it and find one way or another to get away from it. As usual, I would always forgive him and pretend that nothing happened, especially because of my best friend Lisa Edward who would always preach to me to not do anything and to make up with Eric Justin. I was tolerating all this thinking that as long as he was in my life, I could survive anything. But I was wrong…really wrong. What actually led me to renounce my title as the Luna of my pack was blackmail. I was blackmailed and was about to get drugged by some thugs but fortunately for me, I was saved by the one man I had rejected for Eric Justin. He had always been a shoulder for me to lean on amid all my troubles and debacles, even at my dad's funeral it was him comforting me. But before he could actually get to me, the deed was already done as the plan was so perfectly planned as compromising pictures of me, the thugs and Alpha Alfred were taken. The day that Eric Justin found out about what happened he immediately demanded that I renounce my title as the Luna of the pack or else he would tell the whole pack that I had cheated on him and that would result in me being banished from my pack forever. Everything was happening so fast, the pack that once adored me when my dad was alive had suddenly started despising me. It was as though someone was manipulating my whole pack against my entire existence. In a bid to at least keep my now miserable self alive and hope for the best, I gave in to Eric Justin's demand. Now as I lay on the altar trying to dry my tears with the hem of my gown I heard a familiar and mellifluous voice. "Hello Anna…"